We are busy upgrading from the Marketing API to the Business API (not graph API and not marketing API) for Facebook. The documentation states that one should be able to create a test.py with the following code:
import sys
sys.path.append('/opt/homebrew/lib/python2.7/site-packages')
sys.path.append('/opt/homebrew/lib/python2.7/site-packages/facebook_business-3.0.0-py2.7.egg-info')
from facebook_business.api import FacebookAdsApi
from facebook_business.adobjects.adaccount import AdAccount
my_app_id = 'your-app-id'
my_app_secret = 'your-appsecret'
my_access_token = 'your-access-token'
FacebookAdsApi.init(my_app_id, my_app_secret, my_access_token)
my_account = AdAccount('your-adaccount-id')
campaigns = my_account.get_campaigns()
print(campaigns)
This requires an app secret proof which I am obtaining with the following hash:
facebook_app_id = 'xxxxx'
facebook_app_secret = 'xxxxx'
facebook_app_token = 'xxxxx|xxxxx'.format(facebook_app_id,facebook_app_secret)
import hmac,hashlib
app_secret_proof = hmac.new(facebook_app_secret.encode('utf-8'),
msg=facebook_app_token.encode('utf-8'),
digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
print(app_secret_proof)
The is the error I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 12, in <module>
FacebookAdsApi.init(my_app_id,my_app_secret,my_access_token,my_appsecret_proof)
File "/Users/facebook_business/api.py", line 202, in init
cls.set_default_account_id(account_id)
File "/Users/facebook_business/api.py", line 225, in set_default_account_id
"Account ID provided in FacebookAdsApi.set_default_account_id "
ValueError: Account ID provided in FacebookAdsApi.set_default_account_id expects a string that begins with 'act_'
None of the ID's start with act_, I am currently using the App ID that is at the top left of the app dashboard which one should I be using? Marketing API
The Ad account number in business manager is obtained on the front log in screen.
